The teams combined for 48 fouls, 27 in the second half. That didn’t include a first-quarter technical foul assessed to the Glenwood bench after Allen picked up his second personal on a push-off trying to get the ball past the time line.

D-I vs. D-I

It was a highly anticipated game featuring two Division I players in Austin and Allen. Austin has signed a letter of Intent to play at the University of Tennessee while Allen is still weighing multiple offers.

“Larry’s a special player; Peyton’s a special player,” Lanphier coach Blake Turner said. “Those guys are good friends off the court. They’re just tough competitors.”

But Austin said when the two teams step on the court, the players put personal rivalries aside.

“You’ve got to come out here and play ball,” Austin said. “It’s Lanphier versus Chatham, not Larry Austin versus Peyton Allen. You’ve just got to play team ball.

“I get up for every game. I come out and play hard at all times.”

Strong in middle

Lanphier’s middle two quarters were better than the first and fourth quarters for Chatham Glenwood, as the Lions outscored the visitors 34-20 in the second and third periods combined.

Allen went scoreless in the first quarter as he had two Lions guarding him tightly whenever he touched the ball early. That allowed Glenwood senior center Josh Matchuny to notch eight of his 10 points in the first quarter.

Bishop scored 14 points in the first half, Austin added nine and neither player ever saw the bench in the half.

Lanphier led 35-27 at the intermission, getting the final seven points of the half. Bishop scored five, including a 3-pointer just before the buzzer as he was falling to his left on a catch-and-shoot.

“We had a turnover and a 3 right before half that kind of took the air out of us,” Glenwood coach Todd Blakeman said. “It was one of those games. We’ve played those games here before, we’ve been down, (and) make a little run.

Page 2 of 2 - “Right there before the second half is where we lost the game.”

Fourth-quarter battle

In the third quarter, Lanphier took a 49-33 lead and appeared to be getting separation from the Titans. But in the fourth quarter, Allen had 12 of the first 14 Glenwood points and the Titans moved within 54-47.

“I think they came ready to play. They executed their game plan and we executed ours.”

But Lanphier kept the Titans at bay, with Austin, Bishop, and Darius Millican all knocking down free throws over the final 2 minutes 6 seconds.

Glenwood controlled two stats usually dominated by the Lions: scoring in the paint and turnovers. While the Titans had 10 turnovers to the Lions’ nine, it was still a far cry from the average of 23.6 turnovers Lanphier has forced its opponents into this season.